I’ve walked down my street hundreds of times since I moved here last summer, and I never could figure out exactly what it was about my neighborhood that bothered me - until last night.
All of the houses are sideways.
At least, compared to where I grew up. See, as long as I can remember, houses […]
Wikipedia has a list of names for generic/unknown people used in different countries. Apparently John Doe isn’t used much outside the U.S.
Some favorites: Don Nadie (”Sir Nobody”, Argentina), Marko Marković and Petar Petrović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Jos Bleau (Quebec), Joe Borg (Malta), and Johnny Foreigner (UK).
I had a teacher in high school who […]
I just finished resolving (after 3+ hours) what may be the strangest, most incomprehensible computer problem I have ever dealt with.
The background: Will and I have a wireless router to share our internet. We both have laptops in our rooms. The wireless has worked without any major problems for weeks.
And then…
All of […]
…with pictures of other people’s kids all over it.
A delightful parody of the Microsoft Surface “table-puter”
(direct link to the video)
(Via Gizmodo)
I like this (possibly fake?) iPhone ad, for obvious reasons. Click the image to go to the video. (Also, props for including ASL among the languages represented.)
The season 3 finale of The 4400 ends with a question: are you in favor of, or against Promicin? (To avoid spoilers, I’ll not explain what Promicin is, or why people would feel one way or the other about it).
I went to the 4400 website to see when season 4 begins, and was greeted with […]
As The Tenser points out, there’s some new planet-renamin’ afoot.
The dwarf planet formerly known as Xena (you’ll see why it’s bold in a second) is now known as Eris (the goddess of strife). Makes good sense for the dwarf planet that caused the whole pluto-naming ruckus, right?
XenaEris’s moon has been named Dysnomia (Eris’s daughter. […]
Folgers’ “Happy Mornings”
I really love good advertisements. For a while, I actually thought I might go into advertising (then I realized that I didn’t think I could lie on such a regular basis).
That being said, when I found ‘boards Magazine’s commercials screening room, I knew I’d lost the better part of an evening. […]
The Tensor (who JonW apparently knows!) talks about recent griping about calling Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci * (”da Vinci” means from Vinci - some ask “would you call Jesus of Nazareth *?”).
In composing this post, I’m also reminded of The Tensor’s thoughts on stupid linguistics tricks - the only way to get the […]
NY-based architecture firm LOT-EK has proposed a library to be built in Mexico… made out of old airplane fuselages.
Coverage at Noticias Arquitectura, Inhabitat, and CoolHunting
I couldn’t help but include a picture…